Should the Editor Component expose a clear/reset method?

It seems like there’s not a simple way to completely clear the Editor Component. From what I’ve read, it appears that there are a few round-about ways to do it.

1. From #445 - The method I’m using currently, which it seems to work as expected.

    let { editorState } = this.state;
    let contentState = editorState.getCurrentContent();
    const firstBlock = contentState.getFirstBlock();
    const lastBlock = contentState.getLastBlock();
    const allSelected = new SelectionState({
      anchorKey: firstBlock.getKey(),
      anchorOffset: 0,
      focusKey: lastBlock.getKey(),
      focusOffset: lastBlock.getLength(),
      hasFocus: true,
    });
    contentState = Modifier.removeRange(contentState, allSelected, 'backward');
    editorState = EditorState.push(editorState, contentState, 'remove-range');
    editorState = EditorState.forceSelection(
      editorState,
      contentState.getSelectionAfter(),
    );

    this.setState({ editorState });

1. Pushing a new empty state (from StackOverflow, and an older version of draft-js-plugins’ FAQ) - This seems to cause some issues with cursor positioning after clearing the input.

const editorState = EditorState.push(
  this.state.editorState,
  ContentState.createFromText(''),
  'remove-range',
);
this.setState({ editorState });

This was removed from the FAQ a couple of months ago with the message “remove points from faq that don’t apply anymore”. Is this method no longer recommended?

1. EditorState.createEmpty() - I don’t think this is recommended for anything other than initialisation.

Which of these is the recommended way to clear/reset the Editor Component? Would it make sense to expose a .clear() method on the Editor?

[SylarRuby]

Bumping this. I’m sure someone from the core team could point us on the correct path. And why EditorState.createEmpty() is not the right thing to use to clear an input?

[tony-go]

Hi Drafters,

Regardless the method I used that doesn’t work.

If I use clearEditorContent from draftjs-utils nothing happen. If I use other previous method (EditorState.push()) I get a editorState.getCurrentContent is not a function in the console.

Maybe I missed something ?